Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Location: New York

Join our team as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive system reliability, observability, and performance monitoring for mission-critical digital trading products.

You will lead monitoring initiatives in a high-availability trading environment, ensuring stable connectivity to external partners while proactively identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. At EPAM, you'll work on cutting-edge technologies, solve complex challenges, and shape the future of digital innovation. With access to continuous learning, mentorship, and global projects, your expertise will drive meaningful change.

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Responsibilities

• Define and implement a strategic reliability vision for the trading portfolio, covering infrastructure, network connectivity, application performance, and throughput
• Lead and oversee a team of SRE engineers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and performance guidance
• Own and evolve the SLA/SLO/SLI framework, including error budgets and service health reporting
• Configure and optimize comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems across infrastructure and applications
• Drive observability best practices using APM and monitoring platforms (e.g., Dynatrace)
• Analyze application and infrastructure performance to isolate fault domains and determine root causes of critical incidents
• Lead major incident management, coordinate resolution efforts, and conduct blameless postmortems
• Participate in 24x7x365 support rotation and ensure operational excellence across the team
• Identify automation opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops, or Production Engineering
• Proven leadership experience (technical lead or team lead), with ability to oversee and mentor engineers
• Strong hands-on experience with SLA/SLO/SLI definition, governance, and reporting
• Solid experience working in Microsoft Azure environments (IaaS, PaaS, networking, monitoring)
• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace (configuration, alerting, dashboards, performance analysis)
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and APM tools in production environments
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure in time-sensitive, high-impact environments

We offer/Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Unlimited access to Linked In learning solutions
• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off - the employee will be eligible to accrue 15-25 paid days, depending on specific level and tenure with EPAM (accrual eligibility may change over time)
• Paid Holidays - nine (9) total per year
• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection
• Accident Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program
• If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program

For remote work in New York City only.

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our clients, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow.

No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.
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